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Association study of COMT gene Val158Met polymorphism with auditory P300 and performance on neurocognitive tests in patients with schizophrenia and their relatives.
The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry - 1 Jan 2006
Golimbet Vera, Gritsenko Inga, Alfimova Margarita, Lebedeva Irina, Lezheiko Tatyana, Abramova Lilia, Kaleda Vasily, Ebstein Richard
Abstract excerpt
A number of studies have reported an association between catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene Val158Met polymorphism and neuropsychological traits in patients with schizophrenia, their relatives and healthy controls, with the Met allele carriers performing better on neurocognitive tasks than those with the Val allele. But the association was not confirmed in all studies. The present paper was aimed at further...
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